Senator Byrd took a harder line than Nunn, echoing what I had heard from General Mundy. It was the only sensible economic course, and by taking it, we proved ourselves to be, once again, a good neighbor. He had been jailed for his civil rights activity in Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964, and had argued death penalty cases for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. However, the most emotional part of the evening was devoted to health care.
te, with massive unemployment, inflation, and, very likely, a steep and prolonged recession because the international fi While campaigning, I tried to keep emphasizing our shared accomplishments: signing the California Desert Protection Act, which protected 7. In August, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was put under house arrest at his summer retreat on the Black Sea by conspirators intent on staging a coup d’état. The breakthrough in mental-health care was a tribute not only to the work of mental-health advocacy groups but also to the personal efforts of Sena
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